Anxiety in Benue as criminal gang of late militia kingpin, Gana embark on killings, kidnapping
•Youths raise alarm, send SOS to IGP•Reports say 66 victims recorded so far By Ifeanyi Okolie There is anxiety in Benue state following the resurgence of massive killings and abductions by criminals suspected to be remnants of the dreaded gang members of late militia leader, Terwase Akwaza alias Gana. The bloodletting has gotten to the […]
Resurgence of kidnapping in Abia: Police take battle to kidnappers’ den
For those who witnessed the kidnapping incidents that swept through Aba and environs before the deployment of soldiers of the Joint Military Task Force (Operation Jubilee) in 2010, it was an experience no one would like to relive. Aba and its neighbouring communities became ghost towns as residents fled to safer places. Businesses, markets, banks and schools were shut down to avoid the invasion of the then dreaded notorious kidnap kingpin, Osisikankwu, and his gang. That was then.
Help us find our son, please – Mother of abducted 3-year-old boy cries
Since Sunday evening when the Obazuayes discovered that that their three-year-old son Olarenwaju Babalola Obazuaye has gone missing, life has not only become unbearable but very sorrowful for the family. The once happy family who are from Ondo State have been thrown into mourning following the abduction of their second child who mysteriously went missing while playing with other kids in the neighbourhood.
We don’t use juju; My friends introduced me to this business – Gang member
The end of the road for a five-man one-chance gang finally came on Monday, November 23, 2015 at Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos State when operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) attached to the state Police Command arrested two members of the gang who specialised in defrauding innocent people who board cabs in the state. The suspects identified as Joy Duru and Maduka who were members of the catch-in-the-air robbery gang, otherwise known as one chance, were arrested after a female passenger victim who boarded their vehicle raised the alarm when she realised she had been swindled of the sum of N300,000.
“Please don’t kill me” – Passionate plea of retd naval officer before death
“He did not have any premonition of his death. He was in the house when he told my mother he was stepping out in the morning and that was it. At about 10am, like I was told, he went to the bank, received money and felt being trailed. They said he came down, did not have any altercation with the people before they said, “Where is the money?” He gave them his purse and was begging them not to kill him. ‘Please do not kill me’, he had pleaded.
Chilling confessions of high -profile Edo kidnap suspects
The unprecedented visit of strange-looking men to the home of Dr. Paul Erie, an associate professor of agricultural economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, on June 16, 2015 signalled an omninous outcome. His house is located at Igbanke, Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State. Time was 8pm.
